We've beaten the top three teams in the (SEC) East and the top three teams in the West, and I don't know too many other teams that have done that. The bottom line is we need to keep winning.

I think teams have done a good job of defending him a little better. And he's not Superman. He's human. He's going to struggle from time to time. That's just part of it. He'll be fine.

You've got the east-west problem because only three corridors go that way. I've heard anything between 10,000 and 20,000 extra people are in town. It's a huge difference. I've never seen it this bad.

I think had we disposed of Superior, it would've been eight (East Region teams) and two (West Region teams), then we would've been playing St. Olaf (12-9-5) on Saturday, as opposed to Superior (17-9-3).

If you want to go east, don't go west

After that, we weren't competing for overall. But lots of teams with top overalls didn't have the scores we were competing with.